Still and sparkling

Category: Humor

I am a woman with a friend named Helen. Helen is a fan of email forwards. She sends me an astonishing photograph of a long line of Canadian Mounties standing shoulder to shoulder on one of those rickety hanging bridges over a ravine and muses, in all caps, whether the Mounties were allowed to choose […]

Remember the good old days, when you were 16 and your body was weird and your parents were idiots? I definitely knew everything back then and was pretty sure I was the first person to think that normal social conventions were for SHEEP, not me! Here are some of the opinions I held that, thankfully, […]

Okay, TECHNICALLY Royal Pains was over in the summer of 2016, but I have always watched it on Netflix when the season becomes available a year later, so I’m just now catching up. Royal Pains, if you don’t know, is a medical dramedy on USA that ran for eight summer seasons. It’s an easy show […]

Hey y’all! It’s been a year since I started this blog and I’ve managed not to let it go completely, so that’s good. How’s the holiday season going for you? Mine has been surprisingly great. The election continues to put an ominous gray haze over everything, but I decided to be jolly and balls-out festive […]

I’m struggling with writing regularly lately, so I thought I’d take a freebie and give you a scattershot of what I’ve been ~planning~ to write about and then never getting around to. Here we go. Two weeks ago was JD’s and my two-year wedding anniversary. During the weeks leading up to it, I was filled […]

There are certain shows I can watch over and over indefinitely, and certain moments within those shows that I go back to time and time again because they’re just so deeply, deeply great. Here are five of the best, in no particular order. Broad City: “The Last Supper,” when Abbi carries Ilana out of the […]

One of the bittersweet aspects of caring and learning about feminism and social justice is discovering how many of the things you love aren’t really that good for you. You’ve adored a celebrity or a movie or a book for years and years, and it means so much to you for so many reasons, and […]

If you have a period, you probably have a few period horror stories. Do you want to hear some of mine? Here they come. Apologies in advance. Middle School is Great I am twelve years old and in the sixth grade. I’ve had a few periods before, but they’ve been the chill kind, where you just have […]

1. Bighead Bighead is 100% who I would be if I unexpectedly came into an enormous amount of money. I’d be bewildered in a passive, “okay, I guess” way, and probably dump hundreds of thousands of dollars on something stupid in an effort to get people to like me. I wouldn’t hire a financial manager […]

We all read these from approximately ages 8 to 11, right? Okay. I just found my collection of Little House books and started reading some of them again. Whoa, guys! I knew it was gonna be weird and it did not disappoint! Let’s begin. The blackface scene, obviously. Anytime Ma is like “the only good […]